The roots of Platonism : the origins and chief features of a philosophical tradition / John Dillon.

How does a school of thought, in the area of philosophy, or indeed of religion, from roots that may be initially open-ended and largely informal, come to take on the features that later mark it out as distinctive, and even exclusive? That is the theme which is explored in this book in respect of the...

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Main Author: Dillon, John M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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505 0 |a The origins of Platonist dogmatism -- Monist and dualist tendencies in Platonism before Plotinus -- The ideas as thoughts of God -- The hierarchy of being as a framework for Platonist ethical theory -- Carneades the Socratic -- Plutarch's relation to the new-academic tradition. 
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